Also called “all play all.” A tournament where each competitor plays one game with every other competitor.
ECHESSPEDIA
Quotes of the Day
” Kasparov was like Samson, but his hair has been shorn (2000).”
Nathan Divinsky
In one game it is too difficult to play both for win and draw simultaneously.
Mihail Tal 1969
When I am White I win because I am White. When I am Black I win because I am Bogoljubov.
Efim Bogoljubov
We must finish once and for all with the neutrality of chess. We must condemn once and for all the formula “chess for the sake of chess”, like the formula “art for art’s sake”. We must organize shock brigades of chess-players, and begin immediate realization of a Five-Year Plan for chess.
Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko
” Oh, those exclamation points! How they erode the innocent soul of the amateur, removing all hope of allowing him to examine another player’s ideas critically!”
Tigran Petrosian